PM1 George Jeffreys Hosanna Filio David
Motet for SSATB soli, SSATBaB chorus, organThis motet shows many of Jeffreys' idiosyncracies: quirky cadences, often involving augmented triads, bass lines which suddenly erupt into fast-moving melismas or abrupt register changes and surprisingly dissonant harmonies. Five soloists are needed, including a highly flexible bass with a two-octave range down to low D. The opening and closing choruses are magnificent.
vocal score price D

PM3 Michael East When David heard
Anthem for six voices: SSATBaBOne of many early 17th-century settings of this text, which mourn the death of Prince Henry, elder son of King James I, this is a most impassioned work. It ranks with the better-known settings by Tomkins and Weelkes, and deserves to be far wider known.
vocal score price B

PM4 Michael East Sweet Muses
Pastoral for solo S, chorus SMATB and viols TrTrTr/TTBThis is a delightful work, called Pastoral in the original 1610 print, for solo soprano with a quite literal echo and cheery choruses, mostly to nonsense syllables.
vocal score price C set of viol parts price c

PM5A John Amner I will singe unto the Lordtransposed up a third
Anthem for five voices: SAATBThis transposition may be more appropriate for modern choirs than the original (see above).
vocal score price B

PM6 John Amner Now that the citie
Anthem for five voices: ATTBaBThis is dark, with deep thick textures entirely appropriate to the words, which are taken from Lamentations, Matthew and Luke. A very imposing and rich setting.
vocal score price B

PM6 George Jeffreys Our Blessed Saviour
A cycle of seven anthems for five voices and organ

Harke, Shepard Swaynes (for the Nativity) MMTBarB

Bussie Tyme this Day (Holy Innocents) MMTBarB

Brightest of Dayes (Epiphany) MATBarB

Whisper it easily (Good Friday) MMTBarB

Ryse hart, thy Lord is risen (Easter) MMTBarB

Looke upp, all eyes (Ascension) MMTBarB

A Musick Strange (Whitsun) MMTBarB

This is a cycle of seven devotional anthems for the Church year, written at a time when church music was forbidden in England! The unusual cadences, juxtaposition of register and texture, chromaticisms and dissonant harmonies that are hallmarks of Jeffreys' style, are all here, aptly summed up by the title of the seventh anthem (A Musick Strange)!
vocal score price Q